It is been a tough and competitive year we have just survived, the world was said to be in a recession and many blogs fall along the wayside. So what is your strategy for making your blog? Marketing is an important aspect of our blog’s survival. Many of you might think that you don’t market your blog but you are wrong you do it every day sometimes without even thinking about it. There are many different you can use to market your blog some very costly and there are lots of free methods that you can use to market your blog.
Why do we market our blog simply for more exposure, the more you market the more exposure and the better chance of getting visitors that can be turned into paying customers? Some marketing strategy works better than some there is no doubt about that. Ad words are one of the common methods used by many websites and blog owners to gain targeted visitors but this can be an expensive method. There are some great free methods that are available to you as bloggers that if done right can bear great results with just a little effort and time on your part. Now let’s look at a few methods I use to help and market my blog.
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Blog Commenting yes you read it right commenting on other blogs is a great way of marketing your blog and the great thing about it is that it is free, doesn’t cost a penny. Every time you left a valuable comment on a blog then you are giving your website the opportunity to be seen by others who will follow your link back to your website or blog, There is one thing to bear in mind when leaving comments on other blogs is that your comment must be about the topic and not appears to be spam
Facebook and Twitter are two of my favorite tools to use and market my website. Having a retweet button on your blog is always recommended this allows your readers to share your post with their followers. Facebook with the most users online is not to be taken lightly it has great potential as a marketing tool. Facebook lets your post goes viral in no time. There are just three simple marketing strategies you can use to market your blog I use them and am satisfied with the results, so you should too. What is your marketing strategy please share what works for you. Please share this post.
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I have been blogging for about 6 months and have tried most of the usual marketing methods, to varying degrees of success. Twitter and Facebook seem to be the quickest, easiest ways to get noticed and also make great connections to help in your efforts.
facebook has that reputation of bring traffic at an alarming rate if use sensibly and not to mention social interation of like minded bloggers for us to network with.
The importance of Marketing is often overlooked by many. What maybe some don’t realize that “blogging” in itself is some form of Marketing. We can even say that “blogging” is nothing more that Content Marketing 🙂 Other “vehicles” such as Twitter and FB are additional promotional tools that we should all be using as not only it drives traffic to our websites, it helps us build great relationships and gain credibility.
Perfectly said Ditesco we should never overlook the importance of Marketing some even believes that Seo is a marketing tool that we all used and you hit the nail on the head twitter and Facebook are two powerful marketing and networking tools.
Social media marketing via twitter and facebook can drive traffic directly to sites, especially new sites, long before the first users arrive from search engines.
Twitter and Facebook are two of the most popular website around using them can attract lots of readers in a very short time the power of these sites are not to be ignored when looking for cost effective marketing
Social media is the buzz word and it is best to market your blogs through various social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook as they bring instant traffic to your site.
Socail media marketing is a great way to market your blog facebook if use correctly can generate lets of traffic and also twitter and best of all it cost nothing more than a few hours of your time. Thanks for your comment
Nice post bro. Yes, you cannot simply write and leave. You need to make it more visible to get your ultimate results. I have been doing the same for my posts too but it is not kind of aggressive marketing. Mostly I have been using facebook and Twitter for the same and the results have been quite good especially from the facebook. Honestly, I haven’t been digging or stumbling much. I do it occasionally for my posts. I should be doing it more often for my blog posts. Sites like bloggers.com and blogcatalog.com also get me some good amount of people on my blog. Commenting on other blogs also get me a good number of people on my blog. Honestly, I am not able to give more time for my blog marketing. Mostly I am leaving it to my visitors to make it more viral. They are doing it for me but anyways, I should be marketing it in a more better way to get the expected results..
Marketing your blog through your readers is actually a good marketing tactics one of the best means of marketing is “word of mouth” and this actually cost nothing. Thanks for taking the time to leave your comment.
Thanks for Sharing these Awesome Strategies, I am using almost all of them. But Don’t gave too much Importance on Facebook or Twitter. I think I have to give too much time to these too for better Result. Thanks alot for Sharing such IDEA.
In my opinion you need to spend time on social networking sites to see the benefit however it is not just about the time you spent, it has to do with how that time is spent.
Hey Gary,
I am often surprised by people dismissing facebook as another trend. In the past I too was guilty of doing that but quickly changed my view when I learned how it can help to create a brand image. In my opinion, steady buildup of reputation happens when we deliver the right content and do some good marketing and planning alongside.
Great post. Thanks for sharing.
Ashvini
FaceBook is a grat place to market your blog the only drawback i find with facebook is that most of the users are actually not bloggers however if you are doing paid advertising on facebook them the results can be great Thanks for you comment
I am taking this blog seriously day by day. Thanks to the authors and Lawmacs team.
Thanks for your comment i am honoured to know that you are taking this blog seriously but you have written your twitter name incorrectly howver that said i am delighted to have your here thanks for the comment
I think one of the most important marketing techniques for a blog is to interact with your audience. This can easily be done through twitter. Help people out and offer advice, let people see a bit of your personal lives, I think all these things can work.
I follow many design blogs, and mostly the thing which keeps me coming back is the quality of the advice, tips and tutorials. I do like a personal touch to it all though.
Hi Tom first i must say welcome to my blog here at lawmacs.com you hit the nail on the head when you say that the most important technique is to interact with your audience that is absolutely true and you have made a brilliant point Thanks for adding your voice to the debate.
At first, I was more into providing informative and high quality content through article marketing in promoting my business. Although I was already into Twitter when 2010 rolled in, I didn’t start using Facebook and blog commenting until the fourth quarter of that year. When I did, I found out their worth in marketing my business. I am now enjoying good rankings in search engines for my primary key phrase.
So, I believe you have offered something valuable to your readers here, Gary. Thanks for posting this. 🙂
Facebook canbring great results if used the right way it is the most visited website in the world today people spend more time on facebook than they with their family so it is worth spending time on it. glad to know that you found the benift of using socail networking site to work for you.
Great insights! It’s well-organized and concise. Thanks for sharing. Such an inspiration.
You are welcome much appreciated just doing my part trying to change the internet one blog at a time thanks for your comment
I am Thinking of using Facebook as a Marketing tool and I know it has alot of Potential But I don’t know How facebook is effectively use as Marketing. Kindly highlight few Steps or Features except Bookmarking or Ads.
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Conroy James
Facebook has you rightly said is a great marketing media you need to create a facebaook page and invite people to like it and interact with friends leave comment be active these are just some of the ways you can start with.
We market our blogs to get more exposure to the peoples..
The whole point of Marketing is to gain exposure letting the world know about our product and services getting them to just us and at the same time build your brand
Face Book and Twitter these are two of my favourite tools to use and market my website
Just keep on doing what you are doing with these two great marketing media social media maketing is now the order of the day even politician and celebrities are now jumping on the band wagon. It may seems difficult at time but the end result is what matters.
In order to effectively market any blog, you really do need to keep up the marketing effort. If this means commenting on thousands of blogs, thousands of twitter posts and facebook friends then so be it. It’s all backlinks at the end of the day.
I like to think of it more as a reward for participating in the blogosphere, makes it more fun. 😀
The more effort you put into your Marketing Strategy the better the end results facebook and twitter are two great medias to use and do this and as you said we can make it fun
I totally agree with you ,Facebook and Twitter helps a lot in promoting the business over internet.
Aside from SMO, I am also using VSEO (Video SEO). In the same way that we apply SEO in websites, same tasks are applied to videos that were published in YouTube or other video submission sites. You still have to generate and select keywords and integrate them on titles and descriptions so that your videos get to the top of search engine results. With keyword rich descriptions and titles, you can now begin uploading your videos to several video submission websites.
Yes Facebook and twitter are great networks to market your website,they allows you to target your desired traffic and bookmark your content .
I certainly agree with your 3 strategies here. I would also like to add Link Referral, you get to have unique visitors each day when you register to Link Referral and that helps improve your ranking as well.
Blog commenting and active participation in social networking sites have a great impact on your blog success. And many bloggers have proven that it is an effective way of growing your blog. As I’ve said many bloggers are already doing this practice therefore you have to be extra creative in implementing your marketing strategy so you’ll get ahead with other bloggers.